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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The scientific disciplines concerned with the development, structure, function, chemistry, pharmacology, clinical assessments and pathology of the nervous system.
Industry:Natural environment
A coral which harbors or broods developing larvae within its polyps.
Industry:Natural environment
A hole drilled into the earth for the purpose of exploration or extraction of natural resources such as oil, gas or water. It may have casing in it, usually a metal pipe, or it may be open, or some combination of casing and no casing.
Industry:Natural environment
A non-anchored plant that floats freely in the water or on the surface.
Industry:Natural environment
A short sequence (usually 2-50 bases) of DNA. Oligonucleotides of up to 30 bases are routinely synthesized for use as PCR primers or as probes for their sequence compliments in a complex mixture of DNA.
Industry:Natural environment
A text file containing a sequence of commands that can be executed as one command.
Industry:Natural environment
An area poor in species richness and/or biodiversity; an impoverished habitat.
Industry:Natural environment
Any individual or group that deviates form the typical anatomy or behavior; in genetics, an organism that is genetically different from the wild type organism.
Industry:Natural environment
Development and maintenance of advantageous traits benefiting one or both parties in a two-species interaction; evolution of characteristics of two or more species to their mutual advantage; predator-prey and cleaning symbioses are examples of such evolving interactions in marine communities.
Industry:Natural environment
